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James Butler's article on #GortonAndDenton in #LRB is astute, especially about the strategic folly of the so-called "#LabourParty". A fine read: https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/february/just-voting / https://archive.is/xgwDa
But I was very struck by Butler's comments on the divide in #ReformUK. I assume that the billionaire media which fuels Reform will drive the #cultureWar as far as it can go without splitting Reform until Reform has had power to do phase 1 damage. Then they back the ultras.
Any other thoughts?
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James Butler's article on #GortonAndDenton in #LRB is astute, especially about the strategic folly of the so-called "#LabourParty". A fine read: https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/february/just-voting / https://archive.is/xgwDa
But I was very struck by Butler's comments on the divide in #ReformUK. I assume that the billionaire media which fuels Reform will drive the #cultureWar as far as it can go without splitting Reform until Reform has had power to do phase 1 damage. Then they back the ultras.
Any other thoughts?
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James Butler's article on #GortonAndDenton in #LRB is astute, especially about the strategic folly of the so-called "#LabourParty". A fine read: https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/february/just-voting / https://archive.is/xgwDa
But I was very struck by Butler's comments on the divide in #ReformUK. I assume that the billionaire media which fuels Reform will drive the #cultureWar as far as it can go without splitting Reform until Reform has had power to do phase 1 damage. Then they back the ultras.
Any other thoughts?
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James Butler's article on #GortonAndDenton in #LRB is astute, especially about the strategic folly of the so-called "#LabourParty". A fine read: https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/february/just-voting / https://archive.is/xgwDa
But I was very struck by Butler's comments on the divide in #ReformUK. I assume that the billionaire media which fuels Reform will drive the #cultureWar as far as it can go without splitting Reform until Reform has had power to do phase 1 damage. Then they back the ultras.
Any other thoughts?
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James Butler's article on #GortonAndDenton in #LRB is astute, especially about the strategic folly of the so-called "#LabourParty". A fine read: https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/february/just-voting / https://archive.is/xgwDa
But I was very struck by Butler's comments on the divide in #ReformUK. I assume that the billionaire media which fuels Reform will drive the #cultureWar as far as it can go without splitting Reform until Reform has had power to do phase 1 damage. Then they back the ultras.
Any other thoughts?
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I very much enjoyed this piece from Adam Shatz on America in the new LRB
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n02/adam-shatz/another-country #lrb
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I very much enjoyed this piece from Adam Shatz on America in the new LRB
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n02/adam-shatz/another-country #lrb
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I very much enjoyed this piece from Adam Shatz on America in the new LRB
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n02/adam-shatz/another-country #lrb
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I very much enjoyed this piece from Adam Shatz on America in the new LRB
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n02/adam-shatz/another-country #lrb
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I very much enjoyed this piece from Adam Shatz on America in the new LRB
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n02/adam-shatz/another-country #lrb
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@cstross Reminds me of this article of Richard Rorty’s from 2004.
> In a worst-case scenario, historians will someday have to explain why the golden age of Western democracy […] lasted only about two hundred years.
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v26/n07/richard-rorty/post-democracy #LRB
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@cstross Reminds me of this article of Richard Rorty’s from 2004.
> In a worst-case scenario, historians will someday have to explain why the golden age of Western democracy […] lasted only about two hundred years.
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v26/n07/richard-rorty/post-democracy #LRB
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@cstross Reminds me of this article of Richard Rorty’s from 2004.
> In a worst-case scenario, historians will someday have to explain why the golden age of Western democracy […] lasted only about two hundred years.
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v26/n07/richard-rorty/post-democracy #LRB
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@cstross Reminds me of this article of Richard Rorty’s from 2004.
> In a worst-case scenario, historians will someday have to explain why the golden age of Western democracy […] lasted only about two hundred years.
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v26/n07/richard-rorty/post-democracy #LRB
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@cstross Reminds me of this article of Richard Rorty’s from 2004.
> In a worst-case scenario, historians will someday have to explain why the golden age of Western democracy […] lasted only about two hundred years.
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v26/n07/richard-rorty/post-democracy #LRB
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The #LRB pod talks with historian #GregGrandin about the US attack on #Venezuela -- "what the intervention reveals about #Trump’s intentions in the region and his wider foreign policy, and why, as in the past, such adventures will ultimately expose the limits of US power."
https://www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-videos/podcasts/the-lrb-podcast/on-politics-venezuela-and-the-trump-doctrine
#Maduro #USpol #USpolitics #USforeignPolicy #LatinAmerica #imperialBullying -
The #LRB pod talks with historian #GregGrandin about the US attack on #Venezuela -- "what the intervention reveals about #Trump’s intentions in the region and his wider foreign policy, and why, as in the past, such adventures will ultimately expose the limits of US power."
https://www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-videos/podcasts/the-lrb-podcast/on-politics-venezuela-and-the-trump-doctrine
#Maduro #USpol #USpolitics #USforeignPolicy #LatinAmerica #imperialBullying -
The #LRB pod talks with historian #GregGrandin about the US attack on #Venezuela -- "what the intervention reveals about #Trump’s intentions in the region and his wider foreign policy, and why, as in the past, such adventures will ultimately expose the limits of US power."
https://www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-videos/podcasts/the-lrb-podcast/on-politics-venezuela-and-the-trump-doctrine
#Maduro #USpol #USpolitics #USforeignPolicy #LatinAmerica #imperialBullying -
The #LRB pod talks with historian #GregGrandin about the US attack on #Venezuela -- "what the intervention reveals about #Trump’s intentions in the region and his wider foreign policy, and why, as in the past, such adventures will ultimately expose the limits of US power."
https://www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-videos/podcasts/the-lrb-podcast/on-politics-venezuela-and-the-trump-doctrine
#Maduro #USpol #USpolitics #USforeignPolicy #LatinAmerica #imperialBullying -
Aftershock: The #WarOnTerror | Ep 1: With Us or Against Us
The 1st ep of a 6-part series looking at the evolution of Western politics, esp #USpolitics & #UKpolitics, in the aftermath of #9_11 and the onset of the #GlobalWarOnTerror, examining as well the effects on #media & public debate.
The series uses the prism of #LRB's coverage of the #GWOT
https://www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-videos/podcasts/aftershock-the-war-on-terror/episode-1-with-us-or-against-us
#régimeChangeWars #ForeverWars #militarism #USforeignPolicy #USpol #UKpol #stateRepression #WeTorturedSomeFolks -
Aftershock: The #WarOnTerror | Ep 1: With Us or Against Us
The 1st ep of a 6-part series looking at the evolution of Western politics, esp #USpolitics & #UKpolitics, in the aftermath of #9_11 and the onset of the #GlobalWarOnTerror, examining as well the effects on #media & public debate.
The series uses the prism of #LRB's coverage of the #GWOT
https://www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-videos/podcasts/aftershock-the-war-on-terror/episode-1-with-us-or-against-us
#régimeChangeWars #ForeverWars #militarism #USforeignPolicy #USpol #UKpol #stateRepression #WeTorturedSomeFolks -
Aftershock: The #WarOnTerror | Ep 1: With Us or Against Us
The 1st ep of a 6-part series looking at the evolution of Western politics, esp #USpolitics & #UKpolitics, in the aftermath of #9_11 and the onset of the #GlobalWarOnTerror, examining as well the effects on #media & public debate.
The series uses the prism of #LRB's coverage of the #GWOT
https://www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-videos/podcasts/aftershock-the-war-on-terror/episode-1-with-us-or-against-us
#régimeChangeWars #ForeverWars #militarism #USforeignPolicy #USpol #UKpol #stateRepression #WeTorturedSomeFolks -
Aftershock: The #WarOnTerror | Ep 1: With Us or Against Us
The 1st ep of a 6-part series looking at the evolution of Western politics, esp #USpolitics & #UKpolitics, in the aftermath of #9_11 and the onset of the #GlobalWarOnTerror, examining as well the effects on #media & public debate.
The series uses the prism of #LRB's coverage of the #GWOT
https://www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-videos/podcasts/aftershock-the-war-on-terror/episode-1-with-us-or-against-us
#régimeChangeWars #ForeverWars #militarism #USforeignPolicy #USpol #UKpol #stateRepression #WeTorturedSomeFolks -
Aftershock: The #WarOnTerror | Ep 1: With Us or Against Us
The 1st ep of a 6-part series looking at the evolution of Western politics, esp #USpolitics & #UKpolitics, in the aftermath of #911 and the onset of the #GlobalWarOnTerror, examining as well at the effects on #media & public debate.
The series uses the prism of #LRB's coverage of the #GWOT
https://www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-videos/podcasts/aftershock-the-war-on-terror/episode-1-with-us-or-against-us
#régimeChangeWars #ForeverWars #militarism #USforeignPolicy #USpol #UKpol #stateRepression #WeTorturedSomeFolks -
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"Palestine, as George Orwell pointed out in 1945, is a ‘colour issue’, and this is the way it was inevitably seen by Gandhi, who pleaded with Zionist leaders not to resort to terrorism against Arabs using Western arms".
Pankaj Mishra in #LRB: https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n06/pankaj-mishra/the-shoah-after-gaza
#rightToExist #nationalism #trauma #raceMaking #proZionism #Zionism #coloniality #JewishSupremacy #israel #colorLine #Modi #manliness #armsTrade #brutalization #violence #genocide #genocideJoe #Germany #Shoah #colonialism #terrorism
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🇵🇸 Guerre de Palestine
Connaissance des faits pertinents
Par Selma Dabbagh
🔸 "Selon un sondage du Washington Post, 61 % des Juifs américains considèrent qu’Israël commet des crimes de guerre à Gaza et près de 40 % pensent que sa conduite équivaut à un génocide."
https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/october/knowledge-of-the-relevant-facts
#Palestine #guerre #génocide #LRB #média #USA #UK #Canada #France #Europe #journalistes #femmes #enfants #déportation -
David Renton on Palestine Action, protest and freedom of speech - and the creeping authoritarianism in Britain. (More likely *England* - but the terrorism laws coming out of Westminster also affect Scotland.)
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n14/david-renton/short-cuts
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“””Neoliberalism morphed into paleo-libertarianism: free markets plus primitive racial, sexual and political hierarchies. Hayek had celebrated dynamic entrepreneurs and free-thinking intellectuals. Hayek's bastards were into cavemen.”””
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n09/david-runciman/hokey-cowboy #LRB
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📖 **Hokey Cowboy**
_“Neoliberalism morphed into paleolibertarianism: free markets plus primitive racial, sexual and political hierarchies. Hayek had celebrated dynamic entrepreneurs and free-thinking intellectuals. Hayek’s bastards were into cavemen.”_
🔗 https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n09/david-runciman/hokey-cowboy.
#Neoliberalism #Hayek #LRB #Review #BookReview #Nonfiction #Book #Bookstodon #Politics #PoliticalScience @bookstodon @politicalscience
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Michael Rothberg on the Israeli Embassy's attacks on Omri Boehm leading to the cancelling of his speech at #Buchenwald
#LRB blog
A clear short text on Holocaust Memory and Universal Values
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🔴 🇬🇱 🇺🇸 **‘Everything is possible’**
🔗 https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n07/james-meek/everything-is-possible.
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This #LRB article reads like a #dystopian #scifi short story from the 1990s. But it seems to be the 2025 reality in some parts of #China …
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n06/long-ling/diary
Did they really name it #Skynet?
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Looking forward to this one... #LRB
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n06/perry-anderson/regime-change-in-the-west
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#NGOs #funding vs. #NeverAgain in #Germany
"Fifteen Israeli NGOs said it ‘would be instrumentalised to attack and constrain German funding for our human rights work’."
"The resolution calls for immigration, asylum and criminal law to be tightened to combat antisemitism, and for universities, where antiwar activists have occupied buildings and set up encampments, to be granted wider powers to discipline and expel students. All levels of government are asked to prevent the financial support of projects and organisations – Documenta is mentioned as an example – that ‘spread antisemitism, question Israel’s right to exist, call for a boycott of Israel or actively support the BDS movement’. The IHRA definition is to be considered ‘authoritative’. The new resolution cites the 2019 BDS text as its model, ignoring a parliamentary assessment from a year later, which found that if that resolution had been formulated as legislation, it ‘would not be compatible with the fundamental right to freedom of expression and would therefore be unconstitutional’."
"With a non-binding resolution, recipients of state funding will be drafted, willing or unwilling, as enforcers. Curators, convenors of academic conferences and charity administrators will be expected to screen and blacklist any partners or collaborators who could be seen to violate the IHRA guidelines. An old social media post or a signature on a petition could result in funds being withdrawn."
Ruairí Casey: https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2024/november/questions-of-funding
#collaboration #censorship #conflation #longRead #confusion #antisemitism #antiZionism #politics #guilt #recycling #manipulation #coOpting #fragility #crackdown #freeSpeech #nationalism #HamasLoving #StandWithIsrael #racism #immigration #EuropeIsrael #RuairíCasey #culture #cultureWars #LRB #IHRA
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There's a good article by Rosemary Hill in the current #LRB on #GlasgowSchoolOfArt and the morass after the destruction caused by the two fires in 2014 and 2018.
"It is difficult to construe [the current reworking of an addendum to the GSA's Strategic Outline Business Case] as anything other than an attempt to look busy while nothing happens and nothing is explained." -
I think I might save the piece on postwar French thought to the present for another day. 🛌 #LRB
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Just in time for my trip to DjangoCon 📰 #DjangoconUS #LRB
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Hey TEAMSTERS!!!
You have a corrupted leadership problem, no idea how, but if Trump is allowed back the LRB that just handed this victory to Teamsters and all unions, would be eliminated, and unions destroyed.
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